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  • Adds a new community blog post by Shaheer Sarfaraz (Write for Apify program)
  • Covers real-world Crawlee usage building a Gradcracker scraper for the JobOps project
  • Topics: bot detection with Camoufox, unstable redirect handling with URL polling, production trade-offs
  • Adds ShaheerS to authors.yml
  • 3 images downloaded and stored locally in the post's img/ folder

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Community blog post covering real-world Crawlee usage — bot detection
with Camoufox, unstable redirect handling with URL polling, and
production trade-offs from building the JobOps job search pipeline.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@souravjain540 souravjain540 changed the title blog: Building a Gradcracker scraper with Crawlee docs: Building a Gradcracker scraper with Crawlee blogpost Jun 15, 2026

The fix was swapping in [Camoufox](https://camoufox.com/), a Firefox-based browser built specifically for anti-detection. Instead of Chromium doing a bad impression of a real user, you get an actual Firefox instance with humanized behavior, randomized fingerprints, and geolocation baked in:

![The Camoufox open source anti-detect browser homepage](./img/camoufox-anti-detect-browser.webp)

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I am not sure about adding the Camoufox landing page as a screenshot.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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waiting for design team to give me the banner for blog.

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